WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE - SOFT COVER -LARGE SIZEDouglas Kennedy?s riveting new novel bears his trademark genius for writing serious popular fiction. Hannah Buchan leads an orderly life in a small town in Maine ? a schoolteacher, married to a doctor, with two grown up children. However, her past conceals a dark secret. Thirty years ago she had a brief, dangerous fling with Tobias Judson, a high profile student activist, which she had reconciled to that internal, off-limits attic room marked ?Ancient History.? But when Tobias suddenly pops up out of nowhere with a book about his radical years, her life goes into free-fall. And before she knows it, Hannah discovers that a long-ago transgression is never really forgotten. Set amid two wildly contrasting periods of recent American life ? the militant 60s and 70s, and the new-found conservatism of today ? State of the Union is a remarkable portrait of one woman?s attempts to find her own way in the shifting political currents of her time.